The Music

As a “message chorus,” we choose songs that reflect our values and our vision. We sing the words of poets, storytellers, and leaders who inspire us, and we highlight the work of women writers and composers through repertoire drawn from the women’s music community, the gay and lesbian choral movement, and our own commissioning of new works for women’s voices. Strong ties to the GLBT community, progressive churches, and the civil rights, labor, and peace movements inform and motivate some of our musical choices. Our music also explores a wide range of text-free sounds and soundscapes.

﻿To the Ends﻿Whales sing on their long journeys, heard in bluerecordings of flowing beauty: they cry. A native elder woman walks in thickwoods at night, waiting for shy porcupinesto hum. Scientists say an iceberg, stuckon the seabed, is singing as waterrushes through deep tunnels and crevasses,resonating a low pitch like bees or an orchestra warming. There’s a black hole,amid the Perseus galaxies, thatemits a B-flat, some fifty-sevenoctaves below middle C. Creation,and its ongoingness in song, pulsesnot so much for ears as for proof of soul.